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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, they did not and will never!

The point is they overly emphasized EC in college admissions.  Once you are in, your ECs are never something that needs remedial training.

Someone said that colleges are “smart enough to say that the kids “made the academic cut’ to let them in”, albeit a low standard.

Why can’t they do the same for ECs? Now that every 17 year old is doing insane ECs, curing cancer, raising 10million saving the world, having startups with revolutionary products.

Why can’t they say to the kids, okay you play varsity at school, so you “made the EC cut”?[/quote]
[b]Because they have to differentiate somewhere, and grades and test scores have a max upper limit. [/b]

Hang in there, OP. It will all work out. [/quote] You know they can just make the tests harder so a current 1500 is now a 1300 and the average is 800 instead of 1000.  They can make AP exams a 7 point scale like IB , a current will still be a 5, but break out the higher raw scores into 6s and 7s.[/quote]

A1600 still translated into a 1520 back in the 80s.  You can't make the tails that thin.  There were single digit or very low double digit perfect scores in some years.

Superscoring wasn't a thing and colleges saw all your test results.

Standardized test scores inhibits diversity so they watered it down 
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